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The UNM Art Museum and the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts invite you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition: "Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side".

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The UNM Art Museum and the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts invite you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition: “Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side”. The evening will feature music by Muni Kulasinghe and food by My Sweet Basil.

“Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side” is a major photographic artwork comprised of three parts: “Photosynthesis”, “Volcano Cycle”, and “Eden in Iraq”. The work is about human relationships to the environment on the scales of human time, geological time, and mythical time. “Photosynthesis focuses on the natural cycle of the seasons and our interdependence on trees for our existence, including the very air we breathe. “Volcano Cycle” documents the active volcanoes of the Indonesian Ring of Fire to consider ecological change on the non-human scale of deep, geological time. “Eden in Iraq” explores environmental devastation and renewal at the site of Biblical Eden in Southern Iraq.

This will be the first showing of “Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side” that includes selections from all three of its component series.

Meridel Rubenstein, who maintains her art studio in Santa Fe, NM, began her professional career in the early 1970s, evolving from a photographer of single photographic images to an artist of extended works and multi-media installations. She has exhibited widely including the Louvre in Paris and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin as well as in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in the United States.

Her works are in prominent collections including the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; High Museum, Atlanta, Ga; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; and San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Meridel Rubenstein is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and did special graduate studies at M.I.T. with the photographer Minor White. She received an M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974 and 1977, where she studied with noted art and photography historians and museum directors Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke.

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Join us for two evenings of informal and engaging conversations with the artists in Here, Now, the 24th Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition. The artists featured in the exhibition will lead

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Join us for two evenings of informal and engaging conversations with the artists in Here, Now, the 24th Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition. The artists featured in the exhibition will lead discussions with one another through which the audience will better understand the artists’ creative practice.

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The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts is hosting its annual ArtsUnexpected event all day on Friday, April 13th, 2018, at various locations on and off campus. A

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The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts is hosting its annual ArtsUnexpected event all day on Friday, April 13th, 2018, at various locations on and off campus. A schedule of events will be available at ArtsUnexpected.unm.edu

This student-organized and curated event features over 250 artists including filmmakers, dancers, thespians, visual artists and musicians of every variety performing and showcasing their works of art throughout campus and the larger Albuquerque community. Visiting artists and performers will also be coming to UNM to participate in the fun, including Axle Contemporary from Santa Fe and high school students from the Public Academy for Performing Arts.

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In to (practice) be(ing) a rock artist, nicholas b jacobsen, invites you to be a rock with him. To practice being a rock is to practice embodiment, which is needed

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In to (practice) be(ing) a rock artist, nicholas b jacobsen, invites you to be a rock with him. To practice being a rock is to practice embodiment, which is needed for connection, intimacy, and empathy — for feeling.

“…care is an ongoing assumption
of responsibility in the face of
continuing violence and peril.”
– Deborah Bird Rose

If excess extraction, consumption, and destruction accelerated the climate’s change, what happens when we slow down, when we are still?

As a rock we draw strength, to return, to be with our discomforts, our fears. Stone strength is not a cold strength as some rocks are quite warm. Stone strength is an old strength. When does a stone die?

Rocks hold history and symbolize the weight of mistakes and trauma. To be a rock is to be with those things in geological time.

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‘These are the Days, My Friends, These are the Days’ is a film essay and multi media art installation by ‘the line/assembled collective’. It defies linear narratives, be they political,

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‘These are the Days, My Friends, These are the Days’ is a film essay and multi media art installation by ‘the line/assembled collective’. It defies linear narratives, be they political, historical or personal, pointing out the interrelation of global events that not only impact and structure our daily experience, but raise questions of personal responsibility in maintaining structures of knowledge. If we begin with the sugar crisis and end with a bottle of champagne – what exactly happened in between? Can we deconstruct our ways of performing knowledge? Perhaps we can begin to find questions only when we allow all the complexities and implications to coexist.

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Join us for two evenings of informal and engaging conversations with the artists in Here, Now, the 24th Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition. The artists featured in the exhibition will lead

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Join us for two evenings of informal and engaging conversations with the artists in Here, Now, the 24th Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition. The artists featured in the exhibition will lead discussions with one another through which the audience will better understand the artists’ creative practice.

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The UNM Art Museum, as a dynamic part of the state’s flagship institution of higher learning, is first and foremost a teaching museum

The museum was founded in 1963 and its collections have grown exponentially over the years reflecting the university’s unique location, the museum’s status as a resource, and the interests of its supporters.

The Museum’s collection includes painting, photography, prints, and sculpture with particular strengths in American prints and works by the Transcendental Painting Group. It also houses the estate collection of Raymond Jonson and Clinton Adams and is the archive for the Tamarind Lithography Workshop (1960-1970) and the Tamarind Institute (1970-present). Begun by Van Deren Coke and enhanced by Beaumont Newhall, the vast works on paper collection includes over 10,000 photographs and early cased objects, more than 10,000 prints, which date from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) to the present day, and nearly 1,500 drawings.